AW: Write to a binary file

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:38:06 -0300, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com>  
escribió:

> On 2007-04-05, Thomi Aurel RUAG A <Aurel.Thomi at ruag.com> wrote:
>
>> The output was:
>> --- Start ---
>> Pytest write> 02 36 00 01 0a b0 77
>> Pytest write> 02 36 00 01 0a
>> Pytest write> b0 77
>> --- END ---
>
> I'm surprised that the normal file object's write method does
> that -- especially for a "binary" file.  IMO, it's a bug when a
> binary file object treats 0x0a differently than other byte
> values.

A write() call on a Python file object gets directly translated into a  
fwrite() C runtime library call. Any special handling is made inside that  
library.

> But, using the file object to read/write a device is
> probably not a good idea because of undefined behavior like
> that.  File objects also do their own buffering, which I
> suspect isn't what you want.

I agree - using os.open, os.write etc. appears to be the right thing here.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina